Propaganda envelopes published by various publishers predominately utilizing racist caricatures and satires of African Americans
in relation to Jefferson Davis, slavery, and secession to promote Union support of the Civil War. Satires utilize themes of
inversion of social roles, retribution, and Northern superiority. Includes envelopes with same graphic and variant text or
title; sexually explicit illustrations; images originally published in different media such as cartoons; and one Southern
imprint promoting a united Confederacy as the safeguard of slavery. Some caricatures portray African Americans with grotesque
features and speaking in black dialects.

Includes images of slaves running away, celebrating, or depicted as the shyster character Jim Crow; lewd depictions of the
"peculiar institution" of slavery showing a white master in bed with his female slave and a white baby suckling his mammy's
exposed breast; secession equated to runaway slaves, economic destruction of the South, and the moral corruption of freed
slaves; Jefferson Davis caricatured as a traitor in execution and imprisonment scenes overseen by slaves; and views of slaves
working on plantations with text declaring the end of "King Cotton."

Notes

Some copyrighted by Magee and Harbach & Brother.

Various publishers including: Philadelphia publishers John Magee, S.C. Upham, Harbarch & Bro., and King & Baird; New York
publisher Charles Magnus; and Charleston, S.C. publisher G.W. Falen. Other publishers located in New York, Buffalo, Hartford,
Cincinnati, and Lancaster, Pa.

See Steven Berry's "When mail was armor: envelopes of the Great Rebellion," Southern Culture (Fall 1998).

Probably originally part of a McAllister scrapbook of Civil War envelopes.

Part of digital collections catalog through a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the
Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, Tom
Corbett, Governor, 2013-2014.